For the first time computer simulations by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics predict what astronomers will "see" with gravitational wave telescopes during the collision of two black holes. [more]

Cactus, a scientific programming framework and toolkit developed in Ed Seidel's research group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI), will be highlighted at the IntelTM eXCHANGE Expo in San Francisco, California, Oct. 11 and 12. Cactus will be displayed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), running a numerical relativity simulation on a cluster of 16 Intel ItaniumTM processors. [more]